Hmmm...this one serious oooo....THE Department of Petroleum Resource on Tuesday, sealed off 27 filling stations in various parts of Rivers State for selling petroleum products above the Federal Government’s official prices.
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In most of the filling stations, the operators were selling premium motor spirit for between N110 and N120 per litre as against the N87 per litre official price before DPR officials and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps swooped on them.
Some of the affected stations were also under-dispensing the product to the customers, even as they sold a litre of PMS at N110.
Our correspondent learnt that while some of the filling stations that were sealed off in Port Harcourt and its environs operated without DPR’s operational licence, more than 15 of them had manipulated their pumps.
“In most cases, in every 10 litres sold, they (filling station operators) shortchanged the buyers with about one litre of the product,” a DPR official lamented.
Some of the filling stations sealed off by the DPR are Donapet, De Bens, Tombug, Vic Vintax International Company, Rahaminiyya Oil, GVC Golden Services Limited, Yemsonat Ventures Nig LTD, Demore Investment Nig., Harrison, Sobaz, Mikab, Romigbo, and Roman Filling Station on Ada George Road.
Speaking on the enforcement of the N87 pump price of petrol, the DPR Zonal Controller in Rivers State, Mrs. Onyebuchi Sibeudu, said the aim of the action was to ensure that the marketers stuck to the Federal Government’s approved pump price of N87 per litre.
Sibeudu explained that the agency would not limit the war against illegal price of petroleum products to retailers alone, adding that the exercise also covers depot owners.
“The marketers are having one reason or the other why they are not keeping to the pump price, but we need to ensure that they keep to the government approved pump price.”
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